Free Stock Photos

October 11, 2008

Here’s a nifty site for free stock photographs, http://www.sxc.hu. Be sure to read the Image License Agreement before you use any of the images. But as long as your not doing anything naughty with your website you should be able to use any image for free!

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Shopster makes selling online EZ!

October 3, 2008

If you wanted to dabble in selling online you may want to check out Shopster.com. Shopster provides drop shipping services for anyone who wants to pay a monthly fee for their service. Currently they drop ship over 1,000,000 products. Shopster does everything but promote your store. You can sell products on ebay too! Don’t expect [...]

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EZ way to build a nice site – buy a template

September 26, 2008

Any small business owner looking to save a few bucks on a nice website should take a look at 321Templates.com.   They offer some great looking templates in a number of categories like real estate, hi-tech, business, themed and flash. But buyer beware, if your totally clueless about html you will need to pay someone to [...]

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Dynamic Content Using AJAX

September 17, 2008

Here’s a nifty script for pulling in dynamic content into a DIV, http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?whichScript=ajax-dynamic-content.  You can load external files into DIV’s on an existing page. This can make for easier content management and works as well as server side includes or php includes.

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Create a Scrolling DIV

September 10, 2008

Here’s a simple Javascript that creates a scrolling DIV, http://javascript.internet.com/miscellaneous/scroll-div-horizontal.html. With a little editing you can create a carousel effect like Amazon.com uses to display products. You need to keep the copyright information in the Javascript code to use the script on your site. It is FREE!

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noobSlide using mootools

September 8, 2008

I found an ultra cool AJAX sliding effect that uses mootools, noobSlide. You see the “sliding” effect on many homepages like Amazon and Shopping.com. For you AJAX newbies (me included) this script is fairly easy to install.

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EZ way to make a comparison shopping site and import data into MYSQL

September 6, 2008

If you’re in the market for a nice and inexpensive comparison shopping script, head on over to pricetapestry.com. Based on another script called MagicParser by the same author, you can import any datafeed or xml feed into a MYSQL databases and present that data using price tapestry. The script(s) are very easy to use right [...]

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If You’re New to Web Design Open Source is Your Friend

September 4, 2008

If you’re thinking about starting a website and have little knowledge of web design then you might consider exploring some open source software/scripts that are available for FREE! My first choice would be WordPress. It’s the most widely used blog platform and is very easy to use. Most shared hosts even offer free installation in [...]

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If You Mod or Administer a forum or Bulletin Board You’ll Like This Site

September 2, 2008

Stopforumspam.com is a forum moderators best friend. I own and moderate a forum and even after using captcha images and questions to deter spambots some of those pesky devils slip through. I use spamforumcheck as the last line of defense. It’s easy to use, just search using the email address of the potential new member [...]

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CSS Only Tabs

September 1, 2008

If you have a list of information to present you can make it “pretty” by using CSS tabs. The crew over at 3point7designs provide a great example at their blog, http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/cssdomtabs.html.

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